See Antarctica Like Never Before | National Geographic

[Music] I think there's no place on earth like Antarctica. You can spend days and days and days here without seeing any other human being. It's just as close as there is to being alone on this planet. It's just so beautiful, so majestic, so overwhelming. You feel like you're part of something much bigger. It doesn't matter where you live on this planet; what happens in Antarctica is going to have a huge effect on our lives.

[Music] I think the magical part of it is that you start realizing how connected everything is and how it all ties back to healthy ice. Without ice, there's gonna be no leopard seals, there's gonna be no penguins.

[Music] Climate change is, of course, the most important, the overarching issue of our lifetimes. Nature is running its course here, unimpeded. You know, everything that needs to be happening is happening, and you don't want that to change. Creating marine protected areas provides a certain resiliency to an ecosystem that's otherwise under a lot of other pressures.

All I know is that visual communications is a very powerful tool. If we can share what this place feels like, what it smells like—every sensation that we have—with everybody else, you can really create a revolution. When I go to bed at night, I think, you know, we may win, we may lose, but at least we're going to try. With all the damage that we've done to our planet, if there's one place where we could just leave it alone, let it be here.

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